194 Rusnv: South Amerk^an Plants 



short petiole, obtuse, entire, pale, somewhat fleshy, i -nerved, the 

 veins inconspicuous, finely much wrinkled in drying : pedicels sol- 

 itary at the ends of the short branchlets, very slender, about i 

 cm. long, enlarging upward, where the green wing-angles become 



continuous with the sepals: calyx-tube turbinate, 4 mm. long and 

 broad, bluish, with five broad herbaceous angles continuous 

 A\'ith the foliaceous, narrowly ovate lobes, which are 2 or 3 mm. 

 long : corolla blue, nearly 2 cm. broad : anthers 2 mm. long, 

 .6 mm. broad, elliptical oblong, straight, the pores looking 

 inward and slightly upward: fi'uit depressed-globose, 7 to 8 mm. 

 broad, smooth, apparently green at maturity, the closely apprcssed 

 shallowly crateriform calyx-tube 6 mm. broad, the lobes recurved. 



- Vic. La Paz, loooo ft., Apr., 1885 (no. 833) and 12000 ft., 

 Oct., 1885 (no. 835). The same as Bang's no. 32, published as 

 5. lycioidcs L. 



A rough much-branched shrub, abundant on the dry hills 

 about La Paz. 



Solanum Dsidiifolium 



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Pranchlets and lower leaf-surfaces finely stellate-puberulcnt ; 

 branches woody, very stout, the internodcs about 5 cm. long: 

 petioles l to 1.5 cm. long, very stout and broad: blades 1.5 to 2 

 dm. long, .7 to i dm. broad, oval-ovate, the rounded base ab- 

 ruptly contracted mto the margined petiole, apex not seen, entire, 

 thick and coriaceous, midrib and about 12 pairs of slender secon- 

 daries lightly channelled above, prominent underneath : peduncles 

 nearly 2 cm. long, stout, erect : cymes 2 or 3 cm. broad, loose : 

 pedicels .5 to i cm. long, thickish but weak : calyx thick, 4 mm. 

 long, 5 mm. broad, lobed about one third, the blackish tube hemi- 

 spherical, the lobes nearl}' semicircular : corolla apparently white, 

 very thick, nearly i cm. long, lobed nearly to the base, the lobes 

 ovate : anthers 4 mm. long, broader at^tlic sunm^it, the very large 

 pores looking laterally and inward : st}de stout, angled, I mm. 

 longer than the stamens : fruit not seen. 



Yungas, 4000 ft., 1885 (no. 2641). Mr. Bang's no. 2250, 

 with o\'al-obo\'ate leaves, rounded at the apex, appears to be the 

 same. 



Species near S. Lindtiiii. 



Solanum (?) volubilis sp. nov. 



Stellate-puberulcnt, the upper leaf surfaces granular ; branches 

 much elongated, slender, very flexuous^ climbing by the curved 



